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On average, it's either track two (or sometimes track three). It's quite rare that I love an opening track more than the rest of a record. There are quite a few records recently that have the best stuff tucked away at the back end, like track seven seems to be my new track two.

Let's get scientific here and see if we can find any patterns by genre or era or something.

You've just listened to 16 tracks of mind-numbingly dull drone music when... BAM... you realise they've pulled the old Track 17 trick. You realise the beauty not just of Track 17, but of everything that has come before it too, and start to softly weep into a nearby cushion.